Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! I n fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.

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A massive 2025 release on Steam has been verified on Steam Deck by Valve a month before its release next month.

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Steam OS will be installed on Legion Go S. Valve's OS is free to install on any device and that might replace Windows on many handhelds.

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The Steam Deck led to a surge of handheld gaming PCs, but GPD has been making its own options since before Valve entered the scene. Now the company has revealed a new laptop-handheld hybrid, the GPD Win Mini 2025.